Fox Hunting Quotes

“I will take this occasion to denounce and excoriate the vile practice of riding to the hounds. So the sodden huntsmen can watch a beautiful, delicate fox torn to pieces by their stinking dogs. Heartened by this loutish spectacle, they repair to the mansion house to get drunker than they already are, no better than their filthy, fawning, shit-eating, carrion-rolling, baby-killing beasts.”
― William S. Burroughs, The Cat Inside

“That’s the difference between them and us. ‘Them’ view foxes as vermin, and ‘us’ identify with the fox.”
― Fusty Luggs, Consort : The Prince and the Pauper

“No one and nothing, it seemed, could save her, no men with spades, no Ted Jennings, no Ben Cooper ... no Rose, never a glimpse of Rose again. Gannet’s back was arched like a strung bow, her feet were bunched as close as a cat’s on a pole; the fox had her by her ear now. It was bleeding fast. No human witness, if such were possible, would have held out any hope for her. Already she had weakened. For, although twelve hours in the open had brought the old moist shine back to her nose and her coat showed the beginnings of a glow again, the past two weeks of scant exercise and poor diet, of pining in unhealthy kennels, had taken their toll of her strength. Be that as it may, hunched up against the cruelly unyielding clay walls, Gannet was ready to go on fighting till the last breath in her body expired. Her adversary inched forward again.”
― J.N.P. Watson